 I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise THEIR CONTROL WITH A WHOLESOME DISCRETION, THE REMEDY IS NOT TO TAKE IT FROM THEM, BUT TO INFORM THEIR DISCRETION...  Putnam's Monthly - Page 104Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1824 - 308 pages
...putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 "I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...putrefaction — food for worms." J. Adams. 25 " I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society, but the people themselves : and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education." Jefferson. 26 "Without knowledge, the blessings of liberty cannot be fully enjoyed, or long preserved."... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 678 pages
...are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. Pardon me, Sir, for this difference of opinion. My personal interest in such... | |
 | Epes Sargent - American literature - 1855 - 348 pages
...possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves ; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 320 pages
...safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves ; and if we think Hhcm not enlightened enough to exercise their control with...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1857 - 350 pages
...possible that one may know himself." — CHAMBERS. 13. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of society but the people themselves; and if we think...them, but to inform their discretion by education. — THOMAS JEFFERSON. 14. A clergyman was once accosted by a doctor, a professed unbeliever in religion,... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - Political parties - 1867 - 454 pages
...are responsible to the people in their elective capacity. The exemption of the judges from that is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert their powers to reform abuses which they... | |
 | Martin Van Buren - Political parties - 1867 - 466 pages
...the people themselves ; and if \vc think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with n wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it...discretion by education. This is the true corrective of ahases of constitutional power." Nor have the people been slow to exert their powers to reform abuses... | |
 | 1868 - 450 pages
...is quite dangerous enough. I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society, but tho people themselves ; and if we think them not enlightened...education. This is the true corrective of abuses of constitutional power. " Pardon me, sir, for this difference of opinion i my personal interest in such... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 750 pages
...mankind. And If we cannot entrust these decisions to the people, then, as Thomas Jefferson once said, "If we think them not enlightened enough to exercise...them but to Inform their discretion by education." OF HON. LEROY JOHNSON OF CALIFORNIA IN THE HOUSE OP REPRESENTATIVES Friday, August 20, Í954 Mr. JOHNSON... | |
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